The Ethnic PhenomenonA gem of a book for scholars in race and ethnic relations and sociobiology. . . . Van den Berghe analyzes various forms that race and ethnic relations have displayed including colonial empires, slavery, middleman minorities, caste systems, and assimilation. The causes and consequences of these systems are brilliantly teased out employing historical and crosscultural examples. Libraries with any work at all on race and ethnic relations or sociobiology should acquire this book. Choice |
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... selection similar to that of other animals . This is as true of human behavior as of human anatomy . Like those of other animals , human genes were selected in adaptive response to a multiplicity of ecological conditions . Out of this ...
... selection similar to that of other animals . This is as true of human behavior as of human anatomy . Like those of other animals , human genes were selected in adaptive response to a multiplicity of ecological conditions . Out of this ...
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... selection paradigm is to humans ( Chagnon and Irons , 1979 ; Daly and Wilson , 1978 ; Greene , 1978 ; Hartung , 1976 ; She- pher , 1980 ) . Relatedness is a relative matter . Kinship might be schematized as a series of concentric ...
... selection paradigm is to humans ( Chagnon and Irons , 1979 ; Daly and Wilson , 1978 ; Greene , 1978 ; Hartung , 1976 ; She- pher , 1980 ) . Relatedness is a relative matter . Kinship might be schematized as a series of concentric ...
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... selection , a step that is bound to elicit passionate rejection and disagreement . ETHNICITY AS KIN SELECTION To restate the argument briefly , there is abundant evidence that natural selection favored nepotistic organisms , because ...
... selection , a step that is bound to elicit passionate rejection and disagreement . ETHNICITY AS KIN SELECTION To restate the argument briefly , there is abundant evidence that natural selection favored nepotistic organisms , because ...
Contents
Theories and Ideologies | 1 |
The Biology of Nepotism | 15 |
The Ecology | 37 |
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Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights Will Kymlicka No preview available - 1996 |